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System Restore problem - Windows 7 (yet again!!)
Bubba Euler:
Howdy!, Y'all. Yes, I'm from Texas.
I'm going to attach a JPEG of my ResMon.exe showing what happens while a System Restore Point has been created and in normal mode. In Safe Mode, the System Restore only addresses one (1) System Volume Information file.
Notice that there are at least three (3) SVI files being addressed.
This problem is slowing my computer to a stand-still. I've done every other thing that has been listed, thus far, to no avail.
Thanks!
Shane:
System restore is a pain in the butt lol and MS has 0 help files on how to repair it. Which I find odd.
I myself dont use system restore. I do backups of my files to an external drive every night and I use my reg backup program to make a backup of my registry everyday. 90% of Windows crashes come from something in the registry anyways.
I have been trying hard to make the first known system restore repair, which is the beta repair in my windows repair tool. I did everything I could to watch and trace what the system restore uses and still no luck on a fix.
Normally a repair install of Windows does the trick, very odd how that didn't happen this time. If I could just find out how system restore works and what it needs and what causes it to error out I could make a repair in no time. All I need is the info. Which right now has been a needle in a hay stack. And of course the errors system restore gives are empty in anything useful.
A repair install of Windows reinstalls windows while keeping your settings, permissions and programs. So this at least helps me a little as now I know it has to be something tied there.
You created a new user account, problem is still there. This means it isn't anything in the registry for the user that is doing it. System registry would have been rebuilt with any custom settings transferring over.
Where is the common factor?!
File permissions? Reg permissions? Services?
The system restore can create the backup point, at least it says it does, but cant restore. Perhaps it isnt really making the backup so there is nothing to restore and thus you get an error?
If we look in the system volume information folder, where the restore points are kept, I wonder what size they are.
Shane
jraju:
Hi, Are you using spybot. If teatimer is running then this could be the problem causing. I had once upon this problem and did away with total uninstallation to have my restore points. If not, the adware or something, may be present in the extended drive partition in the system and just total format is the only way around.Please, my advise to uninstall program is by using revo uninstaller, a good and safe, (will not pop up message like do you want to delete this file, system could be using it ) and then reboot to find whether sr is working.
If the problem still could not be found, pl use this microsoft instructions to have sr functional
To start System Restore using the Command prompt, follow these steps:
Restart your computer, and then press and hold F8 during the initial startup to start your computer in safe mode with a Command prompt.
Use the arrow keys to select the Safe mode with a Command prompt option.
If you are prompted to select an operating system, use the arrow keys to select the appropriate operating system for your computer, and then press ENTER.
Log on as an administrator or with an account that has administrator credentials.
At the command prompt, type %systemroot%\system32\restore\rstrui.exe, and then press ENTER.
Follow the instructions that appear on the screen to restore your computer to a functional state.
barryman:
Thanks Jraju - I tried that rstrui.exe but, unfortunately, made no difference. Still got a failure message. I am pretty sure that it's my COM+ Sys App which will cannot be made to start (error 1053 appears when trying to start). If I could get that fixed then I might have a chance.
Meanwhile, I hereby accept defeat by Microsoft. They have produced an error ridden utility, tens of thousands of unhappy users who experience this fault, and NO fix or answer to it. They might as well leave out the System Restore altogether if it's so prone to crashing!!
I will now retire form this particular discussion - thanks to all those who have attempted to assist. I'll keep looking at this thread in case anyone suddenly comes up with a "miracle cure"
jraju:
Hi, The problem is that there is some damaged registry entries in the regisrtry. Remember sky is the limit for trying for things. Alternatively, you choose total reinstallation. Try this, if it helps, then after restoring, try malwarebytes rootkit, aswmbr scan by avast. That will remove any hidden processes inside doing the mischief.
Got to My Computer>Local Drive C:>Windows folder>Inf Folder. Find SR.INF, right click on it, and select Install. This should repair the System restore.
Alternatively
You can run from command console or from batch file this line:
%SystemRoot%\System32\rundll32.exe setupapi,InstallHinfSection DefaultInstall 132 %SystemRoot%\inf\sr.inf
A warning that is to be noted, is when you reinstall the sr.inf, all the previous s r points will get deleted. But sr would become functional at least. If you want a sr to a previous date , pl wait for some time . I will try to assist. I had all the problems but some how the links got deleted when i switched from xp to windows 7
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